Animals on the Farm

Advantages: Great photos, educational for young children.
Disadvantages: None

...- The Book - This is a non-fiction book and as the name suggests it's focus is on farm animals. There are 7 double page spreads, each one focusing on a different aspect of the animals: * Farm Friends The first double page has two flaps to lift. There are 7 farm animals introduced: sheep, chicken, pig, duck, goats, horses and cows. * Farm Families These two pages show three animal families and give the names of the male, female and offspring: goats (nanny, billy and kid), ducks (duck, drake and duckling) and chickens ( hen, cockerel and chicks). There are three flaps to lift. * Favourite Foods On this double page spread we are told that sheep like to eat grass, pigs eat porridge, horses eat hay, goats eat leaves and chickens eat seed. There are also three flaps to lift. * Happy Homes There are three flaps to lift on one...

neenn 08.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of DK Lift the Flap: Farm Animals

The Castleton Animal Farm, Derbyshire

Advantages: Saving rare breeds of Farm Animals from extinction
Disadvantages: Quite expensive to visit. No shelter in bad weather

...In April 2006 the Castleton Animal Farm finally opened its doors to the Public. For the Owner, Sarah Champian this was the realisation of a lifelong dream and even now, more than a year into the project She sometimes still finds it difficult to believe that this Farm is hers. The idea behind this project was to provide a habitat for rare breeds of British Farm Animals to live, but more importantly it was to provide a suitable environment where they would breed and thus increase their chances of surviving their threat of extinction. Sarah, now 37 years old, spent most of her Adult life saving up until She finally had enough money to buy a suitable amount of land to begin her dream. In order to finance this project She had the idea of turning this Farm into a Visitor Centre and tourist attraction and although it is still early days...

micksheff 09.06.2007 · Read review
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Review of Castleton Animal Farm, Derbyshire

Farm animals sticking around the bath

Advantages: good water toys
Disadvantages: none mmmm maybe get chewed

...Time for fun in the bath Let?s find all the toys then. I have some farm bath time stickers. (well they are works ones really). These Farm bath time stickers are toys from Alex who produce many children?s toys. This set of stickers is in a mesh bag, approx 24 cm (H) x 21cm (W) This bag has suction cups that attach to loops at the top of the net bag . The suction cups make it easy to fix the bag to the bathroom tiles the mesh bag ideal to pop the stickers in after use so that they will drain and dry. You could just hang the bag up by a fabric loop that is on the top of the bag too. These stickers are foam stickers chubby shaped about half a cm thick. The dense foam has been cut to an animal shape. One surface is the plain yellow foam the other a durable coloured plasticy type with the animal features coloured on. I will be...

mumsymary 30.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of ALEX Toys Farm Stickers

A few animals to start a Duplo farm

Advantages: good play value
Disadvantages: none

...Well it?s nearly Christmas and people are beginning to think about Christmas gifts. For a child aged over 1 ½ and up to 4 or 5 years old You cant go far wrong buying a set of Duplo bricks. Today I am suggesting the box of lego Animals 29728. This box contains 13 pieces. These are a dog , a sheep, a pig , a horse , a man and a wheelbarrow, and a flower . Plus I yellow 4 stud brick, 3 green 4 stud bricks and 2 green 8 stud bricks. These coloured bricks can be used to represent grass, hay, straw. The animals do not have moving parts, but the base /feet of them are holes that will fit into the studs of the bricks. The horse has a stud in his back so some of the Duplo people can sit on and ride him. The man has those c shaped cup hands that will hold other suitable Duplo pieces. The flower has a stud in the centre so will fit...

mumsymary 21.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Lego In & Around Town: Animals

Down On The Farm

Advantages: Great pop up book for young children and very educational.
Disadvantages: I would like it to have more animals in it.

...This is a brilliant book for young children who absolutely love the pop ups. ~ Rod Campbell's books ~ These are mainly aimed at pre-school and Nursery children and are nearly always about animals, just a few of the titles are listed below: * Dear Zoo * ABC Z00 * Noisy Farm * Farm 123 * Rod Campbell's Aussie Animals ~ Farm animals ~ This isn't really a story book, I would put it in a non-fiction category. It begins by inviting the reader to meet some of the animals that live on a farm. When the first page is turned there is a pop up cow in the centre of the page which causes great excitement the first time it's read. It gives a description of how cows eat grass and we get milk from them. On each page there is a pop up animal and a brief description of what they eat and what they provide for us, if anything...

neenn 12.03.2006 · Read review
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Review of farm animals - Rod Campbell

Animal Farm - Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad

Advantages: Fantastic read, Great Satire of Stalist USSR, Short & Sweet
Disadvantages: Perhaps it gives a too critical view of Stalinist Russia

...The short novel is a metaphor for the Bolshevik revolution and subsequent Stalin-ruled Communist Russia where the animals play the roles of the Bolshevik revolutionaries and overthrow and oust the human owners of the farm, who represents the Tsar Nicholas. They setup a commune in which, at first, all animals are equal; class and status difficulties and tensions soon emerge, however, between the different animal species. The society's ideologies are manipulated and twisted by individuals in positions of social and political power, and the utopian Marxist society is impossible due to the corrupting nature of the power necessary to create it. The book, the most famous satirical allegory of Soviet totalitarianism was published in 1945 by George Orwell (Eric Blair). Orwell who was a democratic socialist and a member of the Independent...

Davidhutt 02.04.2008 · Read review
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Review of Animal Farm: A Fairy Story (Penguin Modern Classics) - George Orwell

On the farm

Advantages: Good time piece models
Disadvantages: none

...This farming family 40954 made by Britain's has been around for several years I have played with it in several different play venues. Britain's makes authentically detailed farm equipment models scale 1:32 There are tractors combiners and other vehicles plus animals for the farm. So to tend the animals, drive the vehicles we need some people. The people in this farm family group are about 5cms tall .Recommended for over 3 year olds. This farm family mum, dad, girl and dog are dressed ready to work on the farm. They look a bit old fashioned really. They all stand on a base of brown mud plastic and all wear green wellies (except the dog who is not standing on mud but on his 4 legs.) . Farmer dad has brown trousers and jacket and wears a trilby hat. One hand is on his hip he is carrying a stick in the other. Mum sports a hat on her...

mumsymary 10.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Britains Farming Family

MY ANIMAL FARM

Advantages: Some are interesting
Disadvantages: Some are not interesting

...I love a lot of animals and it was hard to choose just ten. 1) GIRAFFES because a lady who read coffee leaves told me they were "lucky for me". The first time I saw one was in Kenya. I first saw his/her face above a Banyan tree. When we got closer I saw that the skin had a beautiful golden and white wiggly pattern that fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. When I saw their long eye lashes I feel in love with all giraffes. Did you know that they sleep standing up? 2) ELEPHANTS because I love all grey animals, (horses, dogs, cats etc.). In Asia an Elephant is considered lucky when you see one with their truck raised. If it's down it means it's mad so you better run away from it. The first one I saw had two babies cuddling up to her. It was so sweet. 3) CHEETAHS because they are the fastest animal in the World. I wish I could run...

MRS.CANADA 05.11.2002 (10.11.2002) · Read review
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Review of Top 10 Animals

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Advantages: Amazing plot, charchter and depth.
Disadvantages: None

...Animal Farm is a compelling and unique story about a selection of animals crammed into a farm. But alas the story takes a unique twist as the animals decide to break out and takeover the farm from Mr. Jones. They finaly succeeds but this is not where the heart of the story is. Dominance and democracy, is the whole idea and influence of this book. It not only teaches many younger readers on how cruel and dominant the world is, but also at the same time keeps a dramamtic read. Something very hard to find in a book these days. The charchters are realistic and very detailed despite being physically similar. And the ending is greatas well as being something to think about. But what really makes this book an excellent read, is the quality of the story line, the plot is truly gripping and keeps you on the edge, while maintaing itself not to...

arunnair 09.05.2001 · Read review
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Review of Animal Farm - George Orwell

old Mcdonald had a farm ei ei o

Advantages: Great Story
Disadvantages: none

...I read Animal farm whilst doing my GCSE's at school and once i had read it i loved it so much i read it again, most of what is written here comes from an essay i wrote about the book. For anyone who likes history books for even for those who dont this book is a must. George Orwell is a genius of his time and he has managed to combine the story of a farm into a symbolic history lesson of totalitarianism and communism combined. He brings to life the pigs on the farm, much like the story of Babe in a way, although the story version having a better impact on what it is trying to say. Orwell's short novel Animal Farm is about symbolic value, and as Orwell himself explained: "it is the history of a revolution that went wrong". The novel can be seen as the historical analysis of the causes of the failure of communism, or as a mere...

Rach_79 18.10.2001 · Read review
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Review of Animal Farm - George Orwell